Must be true then.........Sorry, I still don't buy it. The boring fact is that life here goes on much as normal. Nobody has packed up and left (or even sent their pets home, which is usually the first sign of a twitchy expat community), there aren't gangs of terrorists waiting to take us out on every street corner, and there are no obvious signs of a growing US military presence. Those of us living and working here aren't stoopid or unaware of possible risks, we are perhaps more willing to weigh the evidence of our own eyes and ears and less prepared to give credence to unsubstantiated reports on what openly descibes itself as a "Rumour Network".
Now, where did I leave my gasmask?